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The average Southern Baptist church is likely an older, small Southern church. If you want to find a growing congregation, however, you might need to look for a new, larger church – or even one in the Northeast. Recent... Continue Reading »
Florida pastor Willy Rice announced his intentions to be nominated as a candidate for Southern Baptist Convention president at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. In a video released Oct. 31, Rice said he is allowing the nomination... Continue Reading »
Morris H. Chapman, former pastor, former Southern Baptist Convention president, former SBC Executive Committee president and champion of the Cooperative Program, died Monday, Oct. 20, at age 84. The last SBC Conservative Resurgence president to be opposed by a... Continue Reading »
Nearly 4,000 rooms across more than two dozen hotels are available for booking through the Southern Baptist Convention’s housing office for next year’s SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. Hotel options include something for every budget and itinerary. And that... Continue Reading »
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Daniel L. Akin announced Oct. 14 he will retire from the role at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. His official retirement date is July 31, 2026. Akin, Southeastern’s longest serving president, made... Continue Reading »
On Oct. 19, Southern Baptists are called to pray for and recognize the cooperative ministry relationships that predate the SBC itself by 138 years. Five churches from Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware formed the Philadelphia Baptist Association in... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptist leaders have released a statement to lament the assassination of Charlie Kirk and call for justice and peace. Kirk, 31, the president of Turning Point USA and a conservative advocate, was assassinated Sept. 10 as he spoke... Continue Reading »
Evangelist, author, theologian and former Southern Baptist pastor Voddie Baucham Jr. died Sept. 25 after suffering an undisclosed medical emergency in Dallas, the Founders Ministries organization he helped lead announced. He was 56. Baucham, who was active in the... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee members addressed referrals from messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, heard reports and celebrated the highest Lifeway summer camps’ missions offering in eight years at their fall meeting, Sept. 22-23. One messenger suggestion... Continue Reading »
Each summer, kids, students and leaders at Lifeway’s summer camps are invited to give to support Southern Baptist missionaries, and this year, campers gave the highest missions offering since 2017. Joe Walker, interim president and CEO of Lifeway Christian... Continue Reading »
The board of trustees for the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission named an interim president Sept. 16 during their regularly scheduled September meeting, held this year in Washington, D.C. — former South Carolina Baptist Convention executive director-treasurer and... Continue Reading »
Scripture calls God’s people to hate what is evil and cling to what is good and to do so in the name of the Lord Jesus. We believe this statement is a way we can do that while upholding... Continue Reading »
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